Re: Apache Jakarta Project Board Report, June 2009

On 15/06/2009, Scott Eade <[email protected]> wrote:
> Apache Jakarta Project Board Report, June 2009
>
>  Status
>  ======
>
>  Note: The board determined that the Jakarta report provided in May was
> lacking
>  in detail. This report seeks to address this criticism.
>
>  _From outgoing Chair, Martin van den Bemt_
>
>  It has been a while since I reported the last time. In june 2008 I
> announced
>  that I wanted to be replaced because of time constraints, with no one
>  volunteering. After that however I got caught up with what was happening in
> my
>  personal life and also was shutdown for over 3 months, which ended up in a
>  long period of silence. Now all major personal events (positive I might
> add,
>  so please don't worry) have passed, I however still find myself fighting to
>  find time (and energy) to spend at Apache.
>
>  In the light of this, I hand in my resignation as VP Apache Jakarta. To my
>  relief a discussion about the (in reality already effective) vacancy
> started
>  and some people stood up to volunteer to take over the position.
>
>  I myself regret the long absence and silence and I hope it didn't cause to
>  much worry and problems.
>  -- EOM --
>
>  _New chair?_
>
>  We are in the process of electing a new chair (voting is in progress).
>
>  Apart from the need to elect a new chair the Jakarta has no board level
> issues
>  at this time.
>
>  Releases
>  ========
>
>   * Cactus-1.8.1 - January 26, 2009
>   * BSF-3.0-b3 - April 5, 2009
>   * JMeter 2.3.3 - May 24, 2009
>
>  Subproject news
>  ===============
>
>  _BCEL_
>
>  No activity - maintenance mode.
>
>  _BSF_
>
>  Did a 3.0 beta3 release to fix a bug for a user. Otherwise very quiet.
>  -- sebb, antelder
>
>  _Cactus_
>
>  Cactus version 1.8.1 was released in January. This version fixes a number
> of
>  bugs, provides a maven2 plugin to cactify WAR and EAR files and a sample
>  application showing how to test EJB3 projects.
>  -- ptahchiev
>
>  _ECS_
>
>  No activity - maintenance mode.
>
>  _JCS_
>
>  There were a bunch of new features added at the end of last year. I'm in
> the
>  process of fixing a few bugs and plan to cut a tag for a new release in the
>  next month or so.
>  -- asmuts
>
>  _JMeter_
>
>  Lots of fixes and incremental improvements have been made to the JMeter
> code.
>
>  JMeter user list is quite busy. There are a good few experienced JMeter
> users
>  who help out with user questions.
>
>  JMeter 2.3.3 was released on May 24.
>  -- sebb
>
>  _ORO_
>
>  No activity - maintenance mode.
>
>  _Regexp_
>
>  No activity - maintenance mode.
>
>  _Taglibs_
>
>  Standard Taglib (implementation of JSTL) migrated to Maven2. All
> non-deprecated
>  Taglibs have migrated to Maven2.
>
>  Discussing possibility of Taglibs moving to Tomcat with the Tomcat PMC.
>
>  Random, Datetime and I18N taglibs deprecated (aka retired).
>
>  An RDC 1.1 release is planned next month.
>  -- bayard, rahul
>
>  _Retired Projects_
>
>   * Slide
>
>  [Report edited and submitted by Scott Eade with contributions by many.]

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